एतस्मिन्न् अन्तरे पार्थः सज्जं कृत्वा महद् धनुः ॥
विशेषयिष्यन्न् आचार्यं सर्वास्त्रविदुषां वरम् ॥
मुमोच षट्शतान् बाणान् गृहीत्वैकम् इव द्रुतम् ॥
पुनः सप्त शतान् अन्यान् सहस्रं चानिवर्तिनाम् ॥
चिक्षेपायुतशश् चान्यांस् ते ऽघ्नन् द्रोणस्य तां चमूम् ॥
etasminn antare pārthaḥ sajjaṃ kṛtvā mahad dhanuḥ ||
viśeṣayiṣyann ācāryaṃ sarvāstraviduṣāṃ varam ||
mumoca ṣaṭśatān bāṇān gṛhītvaikam iva drutam ||
punaḥ sapta śatān anyān sahasraṃ cānivartinām ||
cikṣepāyutaśaś cānyāṃs te 'ghnan droṇasya tāṃ camūm ||
At this moment Partha, having readied his great bow, wishing to surpass his teacher, the foremost of all masters of weapons, again loosed seven hundred more, and a thousand unswerving, and others he hurled by the tens of thousands — they struck that army of Drona.
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'Viśeṣayiṣyan ācāryam,' 'wishing to surpass his teacher' — but not to humiliate him: the disciple strives to show the worthy fruit of his training, turning his power upon the army rather than the guru's life. It is telling that for the noble, surpassing one's teacher is an honor to the teacher himself, for the disciple's success is the glory of the one who taught him. The verse teaches that worthy rivalry with a guru is not rebellion: the disciple honors his teacher through the very striving to equal and surpass him; and the fruits by which the pupil exceeds his teacher crown not himself alone but, above all, the one who raised him.